Socialite.js – Async Social Media Buttons

Social media is very important these days, and having a Facebook like or Google+ button on your website makes it easier for your visitors to share your content with their friends and contacts. Socialite.js is a JavaScript library that helps you load social media buttons asynchronously.

This is obviously good for you and your website, but adding social media buttons can also increase the loading time of your website, adding frustration to your visitors. This can also be a negative factor for your SEO efforts, as page speed is an important factor for your rankings on Google and other search engines.

Using asynchronous loading buttons you can reduce the load time significantly, at least the feeling of load time.

The normal implementation of these buttons (the currently most predominant are Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn) would mean extra code and loading scripts from other domains while loading your website.

Socialite.js for the rescue!

Socialite.js is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to embed code that loads the social media buttons once the page itself has finished loading. This makes the loading seem faster.

Socialite.js currently has support for the following social media: Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Spotify.

David Bushell has made it very easy to embed these like and share buttons and it is also cross-browser compatible.